Control: Best Weapon Forms, All 5 Ranked

4. Pierce

Pierce is the closest you get to a sniper rifle in Control, but in practice it functions more closely to a hand cannon of sorts.

This weapon form does extremely high damage, more so if you can land headshots consistently. Pierce will easily one-shot all but shielded enemies and other large and powerful foes.

However, Pierce has a high skill ceiling as it has a very high recoil and can only fire a couple of shots before needing to recharge.

If you know you’re not going to consistently land headshots with this weapon form, don’t pick Pierce.

If you can though, you can mix extremely high damage headshots into your attacks that will be particularly useful for enemies with high HP like bosses.